Shearing of elongate material



2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed March 2'7. 1924 wwwmmmmm Patented 28, i924.,

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NORMAN CQRENDLEMAMOF nonMoNnrENNsYLvAmn;

c SHEARING oF nLoNGA'rE MATERIAL.

Application mea March 27,1924; yserial Navoaele. y

To all. whom 'it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, NORMAN RENDLE- MAN. residing at Dormont, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, a citizen of the United States, haveinvented orvk discovered certain new and useful Improvements in the Shearing of ElongateMate-l rial, of which improvementsthe following is a specification. l

My invention relates to the shearing of elongate material. I have developed it in the shearing to length of rolled articles'of steel, suchv as rods, bars, and strips, which are commonly produced in pieces of great linear extent, and in such Vapplication Ishall describe it. The invention, however, is appllcable generally, where similar conditions I obtain and a like result is desired. In rollving-mill operation and in the production of articles of the character indicated, the

material is enormously elongated. It is a 11 matter of economy, for other reasons and in order to save oor space as well, to shear to lengths the rolled .product as it comes hot from the final roll-pass, to lie upon the cooling bed prepared for its. reception. It vis with the performance of that shearing operation that the invention asI have developed it has to do. The invention is found both in method and in apparatus by `which the method is'carried out.

In the accompanying drawings F ig. is a scale, Aand illustrating a modification in.

structure andin method of operation.

I shall first describe the apparatus Aof Figs. I-V. A pair of shears of rotating disk type, 1 and 2, are mounted for rotation upon stems 3 and 4, and means of rotaf tion are provided in motors 5 and 6. These disks so carried and so driven are with their f associated parts sovmounted that the plane (or substantial plane) in which they coop-4 erate to e'ect cutting is inclined from the vertical (conveniently at an angle of `20,

more or less, as shown), lng through their 'centers' of trningand lbisecting the bite7 formedkby and between Conveniently the Y them `is a horizontal line.` disks are carried as shown of their inclined stems, connection is at thelower end, andthe stems are of suchv length that themotors and the at "the` upper end travel of the material to be` shear'ed is vindicated at A-B, andthe 'directionof travelis while the line pass--r and the motor drive associatedparts"still'to be described yare out i 4of the way. In Fig. I the line of* normal indicated by an arrow; in III' the position of thematerial is indicated atm, andit4r f ydescribed are so arranged Vrelatively tot-the advancing material lthat the .bite-formed by and between them is disposed.adjacenty and pathway of normal -f vertically beneaththe advancev of the material;l y .Adjacent the shear and on the sidetoward the mill, that is'to say,the side from which the material advances, is set a vertically v-will'be perceived that the'disks placed as i 'swinging guide 7; Through lit the mate-j l Swinging ofk this k'guide the position yshown in Fig.

rla'l advances. downward y:from

yI will causethe advancing length of lmaterial to be deflected fromritsnormal path in a bow, which 'bow will traverse vertically..-y

from yabove downward the bite formed by andibetween the shear disks l and`2. Subsequent swinging of the guideupward will ycause the advancing length of materialf'to rise until the `bow is eliminated and thematerial is advancing upon its normal pathway again. Means are provided for causing the coop-y erating shear disks to advance and recede on the plane offshearing, between positionsof coopera-tion in which cutting is .effected to positions of`relative. remoteness,y when'space is yleft between the disks toallow the material to rise vertically between free of en` full lines the disks in cooperatinggandcuting Positions andin dotted lines-in y remote andlopen positions.4 Suitable means for yef- `fectingv periodically such relatie advance and retreat oftheshear disks consist of 1'0- `tary-cylindrical blocks 9 and l0 through,

which' extend longitudinally keccentrically placed'bores in which the diskfstemsl and/.1.

are rotatably carried, and in'means for, ro-

gagement by the disks, Fig.l III shows inw tating these cylindrical blocks on their axes. The blocks 9 and 10 are rotatable within cylindricalcasings 11 and 12. Exteriorly upon blocks9 and 10 vare formed pinions 13 and y and open.

and 6 through cycles of turning. 4should be mounted immovably on a suitable 14, and these pinions, which are equalv in size and bilaterally shaped and arranged with respect to the vertical mid-plane of the machine are engaged by oppositely f turned worms 15 and 16 borne upon a comdesirable to carry the motors They It is not foundation. Accordingly drive gearing is provided, whose character will be under- I and IV, whereby constantly rotated The motor shafts stood `on comparing Figs. theY circling disks may be from stationary motors.,

are provided with pinions 17 and 18 and the blocks' 9 and 10 arev provided with interiorly toothed pinions 19 and 20 lof larger v:and of propersize. The partsare soplaced that the tangential engagement of pinions 17 and 18 with pinions 19 and 2O is symmetrical, as Fig. IV shows itfto be. As

-v blocks 9 and 10 are rotated by shaft 8, the

disks 1 and 2 continue in constant rotation by their motors 5 and 6. It remains to remark, as is particularly .shown in Fig. I, that the stems 3 and 4 of kdisks 1 and 2 have longitudinal movement within a narrow range within blocks 9 and 10 and that springs are provided, one of vwhich is shown at 21, which tend to hold the disks constantly at the outer limit of,

I, their range of movement. It presently will appear that when the shear is in action and when the work is forcibly thrust upon the shear disks the downward give which this spring backing affords will relieve the strain. The swinging of the guide 7 may, as will be perceived, be coordinated with the'turning of shaft 8, to the end that the material shall be carried, downward across the bite f in Fig. III, in tangency or in substantial vtangency, 'ori` in overlapped positions, the 65' particular positions dependingupon the naof the shears at a time when the disk blades are in relative positions for cutting, and

v shall be carried upward again at a time when vthe blades are relatively remote and the shear open.

Fig. III

shows in full lines the cutting disks in substantial tangency, and, as has-i already been said the full-line position here is the cuttingposition.L The disks when in,-

cutting position will stand, when viewedas ture andcondition of the material to be cut.

material in the operation as The position shown in Fig. III is suited to the cutting of steel rods as they come hot from the rolling mill.

Operation will readily be understood. Fig. III is to this extent schematic: The position of the material there indicated at m is not the position which the material occupies when the shear disks are in the closed position shown. When the disks are in closed position the material is midway of its swing downward and is in engagement with the disks. With this qualification, the drawings are sufficiently illustrative.

When the guide 7 is in the position shown in Fig. I the material will be understood to be advancing along, or substantially along the line A-B. The shear will then be standing open. When cutting is to be effected the disks 1 and 2 are of course rotating, blocks 9 and 10 also rotate and guide 7 swings downward. Regarding the apparatus as shown -in Fig. III, disk 1 turns clockwise and disk 2 anticlockwise, and blocks' 9 and 10v are preferably so mounted and driven that block 9 turns clockwise and block 10 .anticlockwise By the turning of blocks 9 and 10 the rotating disks come from o en position to cutting position and as they c ose ,the length of material is bowed by the `swinging of guide 7 downward and the bow and 10 causes the shear disks to recede andthe shear to open, and as this occurs guide 7 may be yswung upward again, eliminating the bow which had been developed in the length of advancing material and causing the material to resume its normal pathway. It then is in position for repetition of the operation.

It will be apparent that the mechanical parts described are adapted for coordinate operation, not with one lanother merely, but with the mill parts with which the shear is associa-ted.

My invention in method is found in the operation of the machine which I now have described. I'Iitherto in the operation of shears of thisvgeneral sort it has been the practice to swing the material laterally between disks rotating on vertically aligned centers. My invention here "lies in the discovery that by aligning the disks hori- Zontally and swinging the material vertically an objectionable twist iven to the itherto conducted, or suggested, does not develop. The

vertical if swing involves the provision of swingingy means which 'shall take the Weight of the material and at the same time be. powerful lto ei'lect the desired swinging. My invention, therefore, requires the building of heavier swinging means than are required in thepractice hitherto proposed and contem-v plated. And that earlier practice lis the more. obvious practiceand one which "an engineer naturally would adopt. My invention llies in the discovery that'by the departure now described Vfrom what out of other considerations alonewould be the normal and preferred practice, advantage mi'ay be gained, of such nature as I have indicated. r

'It remains to callattentiontol Fig. VI, there the arrangemen-t is such that the line of normal advance AL-B' vof the. material lies beneath the bite between'fthe shear disks, and the guide 7 is adapted'to Ldevelop a bow in the advancing material not down- Wardly but upwardly.

l do not recommend, at least not for use in a steel mill, the combination of the arrangements severally shown in Figures I and VI, with the end in view of cutting the material as it advances both on its downward and on its upward swing. yManiiestly if that combination were effected, it would be possible to eliminate the orbital movement of the cutting disks which has been described; it then would not be necessary to ycause the shear disks to open and close again periodically. In spite of such simpliication I do not recommend such arrangement, at least not for steel mill manufacture, for this reason: because the guides would then be required to direct the travelling material when bowed aside during all the interval from one time of cutting to the next, and the consequent wear upon the guides would Ibe very great.

Manifestly the apparatus and method are applicable to the shearing of elongate material generally and of various sorts.

I claim as my invention:

1. The method herein described of shearing a length of material while .advancing longitudinally, which consists in bringing the material and the shearing means into relative movement in vertical direction and transverse both to the line of advance of the material and to the plane in which the shear blades meet, and shearing while such relative movement is in progress.

2. The method herein described o f shearing. a length of material while advancing longitudinally, which consists in swinging the advancing material vertically and severing it laterally as it swings.

3. rl`he method herein described of shearing a length of materialwhile advancing longitudinally, which consists in swinging it vertically through the bite of a pair of disk shears cooperating in a planeoblique f to the line of such longitudinal advance. 4. The methodherein described of shearing a'length of m'aterialwhile advancing longitudinal-ly, which consist'sin "deflecting the advancing material fro-mfits normal path and in a vertical plane into a bcWand in dei'felofpingsuch bow causing the material to" pass y.throughthe bite of a pairoffdisk shearsrotating on horizontallyali edcenters'a'ndl cooperating in 'a plane o lique'to the line of ysuch longitudinal 'advance' of the material.. 'y f i' i 5. In the'l'operfation of a shear which includes a pair.of}periodicallyLadvancingand receding rotary shear blades mounted for rotation on horizontally aligned fcenlters and cooperating ina plane oblique y'to' "thelvertical, the method herein "described I,oft peri, kodically, severing ay horizontally advancing length oiimaterial, whichco-nsis'ts in periodically developing a. bow' in the "material in vertical plane and in so doing causing the' material to pass through the bite of the blades when in advanced positions, and allowing the previously developed bow to recede again when the shear blades Jhave -receded y 6. In apparatus for shearing a length of material while advancing longitudinally, the combination of shearing means, and means for establishing a condition of relative movement between the material under treatment and the shearing means in vertical direction anda direction transverse both to the line of advance olf the material and to the plane in which the shear blades meet, the means last defined being adapted for operation while the shearing means are in action upon the material, substantially as described. y

7 In apparatus for shearing a length of material while advancing longitudinally, the combination of means for swinging the advancing material vertically, and means for severing laterally the swinging material, the two means defined being adapted to operate simultaneously upon the material, substantially as described.

8. In apparatus for shearing a length of material while advancing longitudinally, the combination of a laterally acting shear set athwart the line' of advance, and means for swinging the advancing material in vertical plane and transversely of the line of direction in which the shear blades meet.

9. In apparatus for shearing a len h of material while advancing longitudin ly, the combination of a pair of shear blades cooperating in a plane oblique to the line of advance of the Vmaterial and means for swinging the,Y advancing material in vertical plane across the biteof said "shear blades.

10. In apparatus for shearing a length of material while advancing longitudinally,

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the combination of a pair ofcutting disks rotating on horizontally aligned centers and cooperating in a plane obliquefto the line of .advance rof the material to be slieared, and means rfor swinging the advancing nia- `terial in verticaly plane. through the bite of said shear blades.

11. In apparatus .for shearing a .length 12. In apparatus for shearing aflength f ofmaterial while advancing longitudinally the combination ofl -a pair of shear members',v

.adapted to advance and recede to and fromi relative positions of cooperation and means for swinging thematerial in a direction ltransverse to its line of advance and across the field of cooperation of the said shear members. v Y

13., In apparatus for shearing a vlength of material While advancing longitudinally the y ycombination of a pairv of rotary vblocl1rs,a

pair of rotary shear Abla-des borneon spindles ecfentri-cally carried by said blocks, the said shear blades adapted inthe range of block rotation to cooperate inak plane oblique to the .line of advance of the malt-eria-l, means 'or'efl'ecting rotationboth of said blocks and of said shear blades.` and means for swinging the advancing .material across the field of cooperation of said shears. p

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand. v

NORMAN C. RENDLEMAN. .Witnesseny PERCY A. ENGLISH, MARY A. WALL. 

